Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Honoring Jesus
How can we best honor Jesus? In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. Matthew 26:12-13 Lord Jesus, ...
A Prayer about Jesus’ Determination
How determined are you to complete your mission? “And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.” Mark 10:34. Lord Jesus, Enlarge our imaginations so that we might walk with you on the day you told your...
A Prayer about How to Endure Temptation
How do you endure temptation? And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Luke 4:12 Lord Jesus, In our study of your temptation in the wilderness, we see how Satan tried the same things with you he tries with us. This...
A Prayer about Not Being Foolish
How do we become wise? “For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 All-Wise God, May we heed Paul’s words about wisdom and foolishness, so that we might avoid being...
A Prayer about Waiting and Watching for the Lord
What are you waiting for? “I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning.” Psalm 130:5-6 Steadfast God, Many of us are waiting in agony for a harsh season to end. All of us are...
A Prayer about a Strange Trade-Off
Does this make sense to you? “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.” 1 Peter 3:18 Holy and Merciful God, Thank you for these show-stopping...
A Prayer about Never Dying
Do you believe this? “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?’”John 11:25-26 Lord Jesus, How I love the true...
A Prayer about Returning to the Lord
Have you opened your invitation? Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and he relents over disaster. Joel 2:13 Merciful and Gracious God, What an astounding invitation! May we read and rehearse...
A Prayer about What Makes Life Last
Do you know what makes life last? “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” John 17:3 Everlasting God, In these troubled years when thousands have died in Palestine and hundreds of thousands have died in...
A Prayer about a God Who’s Not Squeamish
Are you squeamish about blood? “The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.” Exodus 12:13 Redeeming Lord, Some of us are...